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1) Babbitt
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.8 - AR Pts: 22
Description
Businessman George F. Babbitt loves the latest appliances, brand names, and the Republican Party. In fact, he loves being a solid citizen even more than he loves his wife. But Babbitt comes to resent the middle-class trappings he has worked so hard to acquire. Realizing that his life is devoid of meaning, he grows determined to transcend his trivial existence and search for greater purpose. Babbitt's quest for meaning forces him to ponder what it...
2) Crazy house
Author
Series
Crazy House volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 10
Description
In a future world where teenagers are taken, imprisoned, and forced to fight for their survival, well-behaved Cassie will do whatever it takes to save her rebellious twin sister from Death Row.
3) The Giver
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Description
The story centers on Jonas, young man who lives in a supposedly ideal world of conformity and contentment. Yet as he begins to spend time with the elder, who is the sole keeper of all the community's memories, Jonas quickly begins to discover the dark and deadly truths of his community's secret past. At extreme odds, Jonas knows that he must escape their world to protect them all; a challenge that no one has ever succeeded at before.
4) Ugly
Author
Publisher
Hyperion Boooks for Children
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 4
Description
When the rest of the ducks turn on her little duckling, Ugly, because he isn't like them, Mother Duck sadly leaves him behind in order to protect her other children. With the help of some new friends, Ugly makes his way alone, but he doesn't know where he's going or what he's looking for.
5) Extras
Author
Series
Uglies volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 12
Formats
Description
Now that the world is in a complete cultural renaissance, fifteen-year-old Aya Fuse, an Extra, just wants to lay low, so when she discovers the secret lives of the Sly Girls, she wants to report their story, but Aya knows that would propel her into celebrity--a status she's not prepared for.
Author
Series
Ploofers volume 1
Formats
Description
Meet the ploofers. The ploofers have been practicing something special that they all want to do at the exact same time—but wait! What’s that? One of them does something different! When one little ploofer goes against the usual flow of things, the rest of them turn their backs on him. But all it takes is for one person to recognize the beauty in being different to spark a change in attitude of everyone.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 7
Formats
Description
Sixteen-year-old Kayla, a ballet dancer with very large breasts, and her sister Paterson, an artist, are both helped and hindered by classmates as they confront sexism, conformity, and censorship at their high school for the arts while still managing to maintain their sense of humor.
Author
Series
Bar code volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 8
Formats
Description
In the near future, Kayla finds herself running for her life when she refuses to get the mandatory bar code tattoo on her seventeenth birthday--a decision that renders her a social outcast and places her family in grave danger. The bar code tattoo. Everybody's getting it. It will make your life easier, they say. It will hook you in. It will become your identity. But what if you say no? What if you don't want to become a code? For Kayla, this one choice...
10) Eventown
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 10
Formats
Description
To Elodee, eleven, things seem a little too perfect in Eventown when she moves there with her parents and identical twin, Naomi, especially since forgetting the past is so highly valued.
Author
Series
Chicagoland detective agency volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Formats
Description
Required to attend summer school after moving to Chicagoland, thirteen-year-old manga-lover Megan Yamamura needs help from twelve-year-old computer genius Raf to escape the maniacal principal's mind-control experiment.
13) Graveyard shakes
Author
Publisher
Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.2 - AR Pts: 1
Formats
Description
Katia and Victoria are sisters and scholarship students at a private boarding school. While Victoria tries to fit in, Katia is unapologetic about her quirks, even though their classmates tease her.
Author
Series
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 5
Description
"At Ever After High, a boarding school for the sons and daughters of fairytale characters, Darling Charming is expected to excel in Damsel-In-Distressing class, but she yearns for adventure and envies her brothers, Daring and Dexter, who are learning to joust in Hero Training class"--
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